US Patent Issued to ALIBABA GROUP HOLDING on March 17 for "Positioning data generation method, apparatus, and electronic device" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,472, issued on March 17, was assigned to ALIBABA GROUP HOLDING Ltd. (George Town, Cayman Islands).

"Positioning data generation method, apparatus, and electronic device" was invented by Cheng Chen (Beijing), Shuai Zhou (Beijing) and Qiang Xu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A positioning data generation method, an apparatus, and an electronic device are provided. The method comprises: obtaining laser point cloud data in a preset regional range on or by either side of the road; extracting laser point data of key points of a target object on or by either side of the road from the laser point cloud data, wherein the target objec...